David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa (February 19, 1868 – June 2, 1908) was a prince of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and founder of the House of Kawānanakoa. He was in the line of succession to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi around the time of the kingdom's overthrow. Kawānanakoa translates as "fearless prophecy" in Hawaiian.

Life
Kawānanakoa was born February 19, 1868 at Kaʻalaʻa at the mouth of the Pauoa Valley, in Honolulu, on the old homestead of his aunt Queen Kapiʻolani.[3] David was the first child of his father High Chief David Kahalepouli Piʻikoi from Kauaʻi island, and his mother Victoria Kūhiō Kinoiki Kekaulike, a noble from the district of Hilo who was later the royal governor of the island of Hawaiʻi. His younger brothers were Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui (1869–1887) and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (1871–1922). David's family name Kawānanakoa was developed personally for him, and his own descendants have taken it for their family and name of their monarchical Royal house.
He was granted the title of Prince and style of His Royal Highness in 1883 by King Kalākaua. He was declared the third heir (after then princess Liliʻuokalani and princess Kaʻiulani) to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to avoid problematic royal elections.[citation needed] His mother was the sister of Queen Kapiʻolani, consort to Kalākaua. He was also King Kalākaua's first cousin; these relations gave prince Kawānanakoa his position in the succession order. In 1885 he was sent by the Hawaiian government to attend Saint Matthew's School, a private Episcopal military school in San Mateo, California. His two brothers would also attend.
While attending school in San Mateo, David and his brothers would travel south to the Pacific seashore at Santa Cruz. The brothers demonstrated the Hawaiian sport of board surfing to the locals, becoming the first California surfers in 1885.
On August 31, 1891, Queen Liliʻuokalani appointed him a member of her Privy Council.] In 1893 the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown, Kawānanakoa became a supporter of the Royalist resistance and after the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution he was arrested for treason but due to lack of evidence he was released. In 1898 he announced his engagement to Kaʻiulani, but she died in 1899 before the wedding could take place.
Kawānanakoa was one of five founders of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He attended the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri and was the first royal to attend a national presidential nominating convention, where he was successful in gaining affiliation between his party and the Democratic Party in a party vote at the convention to incorporate Hawaii. He voted to break a tie about importing a plank into the convention platform regarding free silver.
In 1902, Kawānanakoa married Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell who assumed the title of princess. Their children were Princess Abigail Kapiʻolani (1903–1961), Prince Edward David Kalākaua (1904–1953), and Princess Lydia Liliʻuokalani (1905–1969).
Kawānanakoa converted to Roman Catholicism in 1907, no doubt through the urging of his wife.
[8]:166 He died of pneumonia June 2, 1908 in San Francisco. After an elaborate funeral and parade, he was buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.

When David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawananakoa (Piikoi) was born on February 19, 1868, in Honolulu, Hawaii, his father, David, was 23 and his mother, Victoria, was 24. He married Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell on January 6, 1902, at the estate of Patrick and Mary Murdock Tierney in Almeda, California. They had three children during their marriage. He died on June 2, 1908, in San Francisco, California, at the age of 40.

THE TIERNEY-MURDOCK-THOMPSON-MCDONNELL –DAMRON-PAISON-KAMEHAMEHA AND THE KAMEHAMEHA DYNASTY

HISTORYIN EARLY CALIFORNIA AND HAWAIIAN KINGDOM
1784 to 1900

All of the Original pioneer families which settled in the San Francisco bay area came from counties of Tipperary, Limrick, Cork and Kerry in old Munster province. The Tierney, Murdock and Thompson Families all came from the areas surrounding the town of Clonmel. The Thompson (they were originally of Norwegian origins) and Murdock families had come from Scotland in the early 1700’s, in order to gain more religious freedom. The Robinson, Crowley and Ryan families came from the area surrounding the town of Cashir. The McDonnell and McCarthy families came from Cashel and the areas running north to the Kilkenny county border.
Throughout the 18th century all generations of the extended Tierney Clan had family members who were deported as political prisoners to the North American colonies by the British. The extended Tierney Clan was comprised of two sub-groups. The Tierney Clan including the Tierney, Cory, Murdock, Robinson, Thompson, Young, Bishop, Briggs, Davis, Crowley, Reed, Adams, Masterson, Meeks and Jinks families. The second group was the McDonnell Clan including the McDonnell, McCarthy, Ryan, Sullivan, Donovan and Shine families. Most all of the families were involved in the fur, timber, whaling, ship building and shipping businesses. They combined into an economic network extending from Nova Scotia to northern New Jersey.
In 1784 the Cory family who were rich timber merchants from Belfast, with the support of the Catholic Church in Rome, made a proposal to the extended Tierney Clan to expand their success in North America across the continent to the San Francisco Bay area in Spanish California. The Catholic Church feared Spain was too weak to defend the Church’s mission system in California from Russian fur traders. The Mission System was most interested in populating the San Francisco
bay area. The Catholic Church knew that the all of the clan’s paternal branches could trace ancestral roots to Naiel of the Nine Hostages, the first King of Ireland. The McDonnell/Tierney clans belong to the Cenal Egohain (Royal Race). This group produced four Irish Saints and had be protectors of the Faith for almost 2,000 years.
The McDonnell/Tierney Clan offered to settle in San Francisco to protect Mission Dolores, southern Marin County to protect the soon to be built Mission San Rafael. The major settlement would be on the Encinal peninsula (now the city of Alameda) in the east bay. This would block any Russian intrusion south. The extended McDonnell/Tierney Clan and the Church agreed the Spanish land-grant families would supply the land for their base of operations and settlement. In return the extended Tierney Clan swore to be the defenders of the Catholic Church in California and remove the Russian threat to the Church. This migration would allow the Cineal Eoghain (Race of Eoghain, the Royal bloodline of Ireland) the means to move the group to what was then the end of the road to nowhere and as far away from their enemies as they could get. Thus, creating a new Irish Free State on the west coast of North America.
The Tierney Clan settled mostly in the east bay area on the Encinal peninsula (now the city of Alameda, California and in Brooklyn (now the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California). The McDonnell Clan settled mostly on the northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula (now the North Beach and Financial
Districts of San Francisco, California). In 1785 the first of vessel the Pleiades captained by John Murdock sailed from Nova Scotia, carrying the extended Tierney Clan sailed through the Golden Gate of San Francisco bay. John Patrick Tierney was the leader of the extended Tierney Clan and Aloysius McDonnell lead the McDonnell Clan. Over the next few months two more vessels (most likely the vessels Elenaora and Fair American) sailing from New England, in all over a 100 settlers and their supplies. For about the first ten years fur trading and eventually whaling ships from New England would bring new family members, supplies and equipment at a favorable rate in exchange for the use of the port of San Francisco and its services. Most importantly the original Encinal Boat Works located on the Encinal peninsula, which was the first shipyard and repair facility on the west coast of North America.
In 1791 John Young, the nephew of the vessel Pleiades captain John Murdock signed on as boatswain mate on the vessel Fair American sailing from the Encinal peninsula in California to the island of Hawai'i. John Young’s mission was to remain in Hawai'i and explore the best ways for the extended Tierney Clan to utilize the Hawaiian Islands as the trans-shipment point for goods coming or going to Asia and Australia. John Young was extremely lucky in his efforts. He became a most trusted advisor to King Kamehameha the Great and married the King’s niece Namoku'elua. This marriage would create a blood and economic relationship between the royal families of Hawaiian Kingdom and the extended Tierney Clan that would last for the next 100 years.
By 1815 much of the low coastal lands from Pt. Richmond to Hayward were being settled by new arrivals brought on family owned schooners from the American east coast. Two large cattle ranches were established Rancho San Antonio Estudilo (now the cities of San Leandro and San Antonio) and Rancho San Lorenzo Peralta (now north Oakland and the city of Piedmont). In 1821 Spanish Mexico was completely bankrupt and on the verge of political failure. At this time the Spanish population of the San Francisco bay area was less than 10%.The California governor Pablo Vicente Sola feared being totally overrun by the Irish settlers and knowing no military aid would be available Mexico made a decision that almost caused the collapse of Spanish California. Governor Sola issued a land grant to Luis Maria Peralta the owner of Rancho San Lorenzo essentially giving the lands occupied by the Irish settlers and the Estudilo framily Rancho San Antonio. This of course, had no change of happening. The problem was settled the old fashion way by marriage. The Estudilo family already related by marriage to the Tierney family brokered an arrangement the setters would protect both preexisting from any future intrusion and one of Luis Maria Peralta’s daughters married into the Robinson family. A three hundred acre parcel of Robinson and Murdock family land on the Encinal peninsula with bay access was given to Luis Maria Peralta as a token of good faith. The promise to protect the family’s lands was fulfilled at the time of the gold rush. When those caught cheating or stealing from the Peralta or Esudilo families found themselves in an oyster shack on the bottom of the bay or Shanghaied on a boat for the orient! 160 acres of Luis Maria Peralta’s land on the Encinal peninsula was sold in 1851 to William Chipman. This parcel of land was border by Broadway, Central Ave., Mound St. and Fountain St. In 1852 William Chipman and his partner Gideon Aughinbaugh were hired by the Tierney, Murdock and Briggs families lawyer A.A Cohen to market and promote the lands sub-divided to create the original town of Encinal later the city of Alameda. .

In 1825 John Timothy Tierney, the son of John Patrick Tierney, sailed the first whaling schooner built at the Encinal Boat Works (the Star of Paradise) in Alameda on a voyage to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His first stop was Kawaihae located on the island of Hawaii; John Tierney came to explore the possibility of establishing a shipping whaling and timber business in Hawaii. While there he met with his cousin John Young the governor of the Island. John Young had sailed to Hawaii from California on the New England fur trader Eleanora to explore business opportunities for the family. John Young agreed to become Pacific Shipping Companies personal business representative in the Hawaiian Kingdom. When John Young died, his son Peter Young Kaeo Kakualani assumed the position, and later his son Keoni Ana (John Young Jr.), as well. For the next sixty years the Hawaiian Kingdom would play a key part in the Tierney family’s business interests
From 1840 to1845 the famous mountainman and scot Kit Carson spent considerable time on the Encinal peninsula, He had become a close friend of John Patrick Tierney and oftain camped on the original pioneer Homestead (see 1875 map of Alameda Pioneer Homstead for location). When the first rumors of war with Mexico started circulating , Kit Carson volentered to trravel back across the country to Washington D. C . The perpose of the journey was to inform the Federal Government that most citizen of California wnere almost all Irish, scotish and Welich settlers well armed, including cannons. The were willing to seize California ofr the United States. All that was needed was an Army officer with the aurothity to do so. In 1846 Col. John C. Fremont and Kit Carson and a small party of soldiers arrived in the bay area in Eden at the mouth of Niles Cayon. California became a state and John Fremont it’s first Governor. In later written acounts both Fremont and Carson speak of the surprising nunber of large of large farms with fine homes, spreading along the lowlands of the east bay and Encinal peninsula.
During the early 1840's the original families formed a social and business organization called Friends of the Irish Free State this was done to better allow them to manage their mutual business interests. They also formed other social, sports and political clubs for their fellow countrymen, which they were still being transporting on their ships from Ireland. These clubs were part social, part political, and part social welfare programs. They were where the working person could go for help of any kind. These services were free all, they only asked in return was that you would consider voting for the club's candidate of choice on Election Day. The Friends of the Irish Free State families, especially the Tierney’s, owned saloons in every voting district in the bay area. In those days the saloons closed on Election Day and became the polling stations where you cast your vote, the food and drink was on the house! By the mid 1840's non Catholic families were now joining the clubs, mostly through marriage, in the city of Alameda, they included the Jinks, Meek, Bartlett, Thurston, Sather, Valentine and Mohr families. By 1848 the era of the wagon train was well under way, the original families had married into the Peralta, Estadilo and the other prominent Mexican families. In order to protect the land grant families from new arrivals and land swindlers, the Peralta family gave the Friends of the Irish Free State family’s title to all the timber lands surrounding the small town of Oakland. These timber lands at the time ran from Berkeley through the east bay hills to Brooklyn (now the Fruitvale District of
Oakland). By the California Gold in 1849 the San Francisco bay area was referred to locally as “Little Ireland” and Francis McDonnell had become San Francisco’s first political boss. When Gold was discovered 95% of the population of California lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and 70% of the population, were members of the Friends of the Irish Free State. In 1849 about 900 people lived in San Francisco, in 1850 there were 25,000 people living in Northern California. In 1850 the port of San Francisco was overwhelmed by the ships abandoned by their captain and crews. It became impossible to get the ships to the piers for unloading. Four years earlier John Timothy Tierney and others founded the Shippers And Merchants Tug Boat Company (Red Stack Line, later reorganize in1887as the shipowners and Merchants Tug Boat company) to service the ports of San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda. John Tierney had the city of San Francisco declare the vessels abandoned and a hazard to navigation. He then claimed the vessels for himself and used his tugs to tow the ships up the Alameda/Oakland estuary to his anchorage and shipyard in Alameda. This new windfall left him the owner of the largest commercial fleet in the Pacific Ocean. He used many of these new ships to import the contract Chinese labor necessary to work the new sugar plantation being built in the Hawaiian Kingdom. At this time Hawaii became the transshipping between Star Pacific Shipping Company and the Cory brothers Star Line(later renamed White Star line, then the Cunard Line of today) the which ran ships from European ports to Australia, New Zealand and the orient via the south Pacific and Hawaii. This continuing bond between Star Pacific Shipping Company and the original Star Line gave these companies a virtual monopoly on all trade coming in and out of the Hawaiian Kingdom bound for Asia and Europe. In 1864 John Timothy Tierney and several merchants from San Francisco provided the financial backing to the founders of the Bank of California, which soon became the second largest bank in America. Also, in 1852 the original families decided to incorporate the east end of the Encinal Peninsula into the town of Encinal. The name was changed two years later, by popular vote, to the city of Alameda.
In 1854 John Tierney made Peter Sather his personal banker; in Patrick and Mary’s home in Alameda after the quake Mary’s sister Catherine Murdock lived in the home until her death in 1904. The estate had been left in Mary and Patrick’s will to the Catholic Church. The will included a condition, which was, after their death the property would remain under family control until the church could begin construction of the church. My grandparents and their eight children lived in the Tierney family home until 1925. Peter’s company handled all of Bank of California’s commercial banking. Then in 1858 John Tierney became a silent partner of cousin Charles Reed Bishop (husband of Princess Bernice Bishop a member of the Hawaiian Royal Family) in his new bank called Bishop And Company. John Timothy Tierney did this by having Peter Sather arrange for the Bank of California to provide all the letters of credit necessary to fund the Bishop Company Bank. In this way Charles Reed Bishop became the Tierney Families personal banker in the Hawaiian Kingdom for the next forty years.
In late 1858 John Tierney was approached by San Francisco Business men Leyland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker, they want to form the Central Pacific Railroad which, was to construct the western half of the purposed Trans-Continental Railroad. They wanted John Tierney to invest, lend his political support and provide the needed contract labor to build the Central Pacific Railroad. John
Tierney agreed with two conditions. The first condition was the Trans-Continental Railroad’s starting point would be Sacramento, California.
The first condition was John Timothy Tierney Sr. and the Friends of the Irish Free State would build a railroad terminus for San Francisco and the rest of the bay area themselves, including a railroad link to Stockton and Sacramento. This would assure that all rail lines, railroad yards, docks, ferryboat terminals and warehouse districts would be built on land owned by the Tierney family or other Friends of the Irish free State members. This would assure absolute ownership and control of the Port of San Francisco and the Alameda/Oakland Inner Harbor. The second condition was the Central Pacific Railroad would hire John Tierney’s wife’s grandnephew A. A Cohen (who was then chief legal consul for the Bank of California) as chief legal consul for the Central Pacific Railroad, thus, protecting the Tierney Families interest for the future.
In 1863 A.A Cohen, Charles Minturn and E.B Mastick built the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad. The funding and railroad right-of-ways were provided by John Patrick Tierney and his banking business partner Peter Sather, This was the first railroad built on the west coast of United States. It connected the Central Pacific Railroad’s portion of the Trans- Continental Railroad at Sacramento with San Francisco and the rest of the bay area. When all parts of the Trans-Continental Railroad Project were completed and in place the San Francisco and Alameda/Western Pacific Railroad was sold to the Central Pacific Railroad. The Central Pacific Railroad was then renamed the Southern Pacific Railroad, the name it carries to this day.
In 1872 a battle started between Charles Crocker the managing partner of the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Friends of the Irish Free State and the growers and packers in the Central Valley of California. Charles Crocker had become so overcome be greed and the wish for absolute control over the entire economy of the state of California, forcing the Citizens of the state, almost to the point of armed revolt. John Patrick Tierney was in very poor health. Fearing all could be lost, John put his middle son Patrick Tierney in charge of the Tierney family’s political operations to lead the fight against the Southern Pacific Railroad. Patrick Tierney made a political alliance with his close friend Claus Spreckels, the sugar king of California and the leader of the Democrat Party in the great Central Valley. Patrick Tierney order that the Friends of the Irish Free State political clubs and organizations to switch the affiliations from the Republican to the Democrat Party. They won in a landslide, the first thing they did was get the State Legislature to strip the Southern Pacific Railroad of all of its right-of-ways in the including the tracks! The State leased the right-of-ways, tracks and support building back to the rail, but the State owned the land. The remaining land that the railroads had stolen from the people under immanent domain was used to build much of the State of California’s public road system.
John Timothy Tierney’s era came to an end with his death, about 1872. He was the last to be buried, like most of the first three generation of the extended Tierney Clan, in the Irish Free State Cemetery (Old Catholic Cemetery). In 1872 the Tierney, Murdock, Thompson, McDonnell and Robinson families donated the funds to construct St. Joseph Church and the Notre Dame Academy for Young Women, The Irish Free State Cemetery( Old Catholic Cemetery was located between the original St. Joseph Church and the Notre Dame Academy. In about 1912 when the old church burned down and the
new St Joseph Basilica and school were built the cemetery was paved over and it became the school ground for St. Joseph High School. Ten years earlier the Friends of Irish Free State timber lands were used to build St Marys Cemetery in Oakland. John Patrick Tierney and Mary Cory Tierney’s home was located on the family’s old Pioneer Homestead (see 1870 map of Alameda).
The 1870’s began the era of the Tierney brothers, John and Mary’s four sons John, Peter, James and Patrick. Patrick Tierney replaced his father as head of the extended Tierney Clan. He and his brothers shared in the tug boat, shipping and terminal companies. John Tierney was in charge of the docks in San Francisco and the family’s recreational companies (gambling, etc.) in the barberry coast, North Beach and Chinatown, the East Bay and Hawai'i(with the Young family). Patrick Tierney ran the political operations Statewide. James and Peter Tierney operated the social and political organizations in the East Bay.
During the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad Patrick Tierney meet Claus Spreckels, the sugar beet king of California, they formed a friendship and business relationship that would last for the remainder of their lives. In partnership with the Hawaiian Royal and High Alli families, they would create a sugar monopoly in Hawaii that would last for more than forty years. Spreckels and Patrick Tierney would create the Alaska Packer’s Association (formally the Pacific Shipping Company), the California Packing Association (the Del Monte Brand).
In 1882 they along with William Matson formed the original Matson Navigation Company. Claus Spreckels provided the funding and Patrick Tierney built the first several Matson ships at the Tierney brother’s Alameda Boat and Engineering Works shipyard in Alameda, located next door to the Alaska Packer’s facility.
In the 1860’s, at the request of Patrick's Hanai (adopted) sister Queen Liliuokalani, he provided the land and loans necessary to build the Mills Seminary for Women in the east bay hills of Brooklyn (now the Fruitvale District of Oakland).
In 1894, following the death of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, her husband Charles Reed Bishop wished to sell the Bishop and Company Bank and move to San Francisco. Patrick Tierney agreed and rewarded Charles Reed Bishop for his years of service representing the Tierney family, by making him President of the Bank of California. Charles Reed Bishop died in 1915 in Alameda California. He died in Patrick and Mary Murdock Tierney’s old estate, then occupied by Charles Emil Thompson and Mary Tierney Thompson and their family. Charles Thompson (Charles Reed Bishop’s hani son) and his wife Mary had Charles Reed Bishop cremated and the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland California. Charles Thompson returned Charles Reed Bishop’s ashes to Hawaii and personally returned the ashes to Queen Liliuokalani on Oahu, where they were buried next the Princess Bernice Pauahi at the Royal Mausoleum of Hawai'i.
When Patrick Tierney married Mary Murdock in about 1865, her father Henry Murdock gave them land and built a home for them as a wedding gift. Patrick and Mary’s estate, bordered by High St, Van Buren St., Madison St. and Court St. in Alameda. During their time in the home King David Kalakaua, Queen Liliuokalani, her hanai daughter Lydia Aholo, Princess Kaiulani and Charles Reed Bishop visited and
stayed at the Tierney Estate. During the Tierney brother’s era they all had estate homes in Alameda and city homes in San Francisco. King David Kalakaua, Patrick’s close friend and Hanai brother, had visited the Alaska Packer’s and the Alameda Boat and Engineering Works new operations in Alameda during his visit. That night the King had played cards most of the evening with Patrick Tierney and his friends. The next day the King turned to San Francisco, were I believe, that night King David Kalakaua died at the Sheraton Hotel. Patrick Tierney accompanied the King’s body back to Hawaii on U.S.S Charleston and returned to San Francisco on his private schooner the Pleiades. While in Honolulu the Pleiades captain William Matson meet my grandfather Charles Emil and hired as a crew member for the return voyage to Alameda. The young Charles spoke mostly Swedish and had no last name; he had grown up in a Swedish orphanage and had run away to sea at 15. When the Pleiades reached Alameda Captain Matson introduced Charles to R. R Thompson a relative and close friend of Patrick Tierney. R.R Thompson taught Charles English and treated him as if he were his own son. To honor his mentor Charles Emil took the last name of Thompson for his own. In 1893 Charles Emil Thompson married Mary Tierney, the youngest daughter of Patrick Tierney and Mary Tierney
John Tierney died in the late 1890’s in the Hawaii Kingdom and was buried most likely on the Kona coast of the island of Hawaii. Patrick’s brother Peter had died in1902. Patrick Tierney died in 1904. His ownership in his various companies past to his partner not his family, which was the common custom of the times. Patrick’s last remaining brother James and Claus Spreckels died in1908. Charles and Mary Thompson live in Patrick and Mary’s town home on upper Vallejo St. in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake. They lost the home and all but the clothes on their back in the quake. My grandparents Charles and Mary Thompson and their children were living in the Tierney family home until 1925.